Barcelona airport transfers

Getting around Barcelona

The drive in follows the coast or the ring road, depending on where your hotel is, and arrives in a city that is laid out on a grid for most of its length. Streets in the old quarter are narrow and some are pedestrianised, so a hotel on a lane off the Ramblas may mean a short walk from where the car can stop, while an Eixample hotel will usually have a kerb outside. Barcelona is a city people reach in many ways, and a private car is a choice rather than a necessity. It is the better choice for cruise passengers moving between the airport and the port with cases, for families arriving at the end of a long day, for groups sharing the fare, and for anybody staying towards Montjuic or the upper districts where the walk from a station is uphill. With hand luggage and a hotel near Placa de Catalunya, you may decide to do without. The route to open is Barcelona-El Prat Airport to Barcelona; enter the pickup time to match your landing and the number of travellers, and the vehicles that suit appear with a journey estimate. Book the hotel from the same page, and consider an eSIM for Spain so the address is on your phone before you leave the terminal.